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A clothes-pin (also '''C47''', '''clothes peg''', or just '''peg''') is a Fastener used to hang up, and dry Clothes , usually on a Clothes Line . Pegs often come in many different designs. Today, many pegs are manufactured very cheaply by creating two interlocking plastic or wooden prongs, which in between is often wedged a small Spring . By a Lever action, when the two prongs are pinched at the top of the peg, the prongs open up, and when released, the spring draws the two prongs shut, creating the action necessary for gripping. Older designs do not use springs, but often are fashioned in one piece, with the two prongs part of the peg chassis with only a small distance between them - this form of peg creates the gripping action due to the two prongs being wedged apart and thus squeezing together in that the prongs want to return to their initial, resting state. This form of peg is often fashioned from plastic, or originally, wood. OTHER USES A clothes-pin can be used for closing a bag, allowing opening easier than with a knot in the (plastic) bag, a piece of rope with a knot, etc. Clothes-pins are used in BDSM to induce minor amounts of Pain , canonically as impromptu makeshift Nipple Clamp s, but are also applied to other parts of the body. Clothes-pins with springs used to fascinate young children and served as raw material for various contraptions: fire-throwing Catapult s, Mousetrap s, Pistol s, detonators, not to mention various Rube Goldberg machines. In the film industry, on movie sets in particular, a spring-type clothes-pin is called a "C47", "C74", "47" or a "bullet". It is incredibly useful on the set. Often times lights used on commercial sets become hot to the touch. So, a C47 is used to attach a color correction jell or diffusion to the barn doors on a light. Some times when people are new to being on a set others will clip a C47 to the back of their shirt. This is called tagging and is a form of hazing someone into set culture. People like Gaffers, Grips, and Production Assistants will keep at least 4 C47’s on their person at all times. Clamped on to small ropes ties to their built or attested them to their shirts. They are also used for straws. When a talent is in full makeup they often times can not drink from a cut so they drink from a straw. When the bottle or cup is to deep for the straw a C47 is clipped an inch from the top of the straw to keep the straw from falling into the drink. The name "C47" may have come from an attempt to make it sound less mundane than a clothes-pin, or it may have come from the label on the bin used to store them in an early studio. More commonly believed is that the name "C47" came to be the designation that the clothes-pins were given when printed on studio budgets to trick budget managers into approving the request for them. A C74 is a spring-type clothes-pin that has been taken apart and put back together reversed, so the small end comes together. This gives a Tweezer -like tool. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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